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Etna Spring Tourist Trip 2: the Forty-Hour water stream

Posted on 16/04/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The beauty of a high and ancient volcano like Mount Etna is also manifested in its “mountain” characteristics. Indeed, unlike other more arid volcanoes, Etna reaches heights that allow it to have well-defined seasons and well-defined phenomena linked to them. The moment of snowmelt is one of those fascinating phenomena which, thanks to the volcanic […]

Mt. Etna’s eruption of 1843 and the Big Explosion

Posted on 08/04/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

Can the world end in just 11 days? Maybe not, for many of us, but for those who experienced the November 1843 eruption of Mount Etna up close, that must have been the sensation. And for some of them the world really ended that week. A brief but violent, intense event that left a trail […]

In the belly of Mt.Etna, the caves of the Teri Brothers

Posted on 27/03/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The first time you read the news in the newspaper it may surprise you. The second time it fascinates you. Then it becomes a habit, but a pleasant habit, not a boring one. You get used to extraordinary adventures when they become a real life path, a daily style, a… family affair! This could be […]

A Mt Etna spring tourist trip 1: Favare of Maletto

Posted on 19/03/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

With this article we want to inaugurate some very specific tourist suggestions, suitable in our opinion for every month and season of the year around our volcano. And in the first month of spring, we want to tell you about a perfect location for this season: the Favare of Maletto. In fact, in the past […]

Acireale and the Timpa lava plateau

Posted on 05/03/2023 (09/09/2024) by Grazia Musumeci

The people of Acireale solemnly call it “the” Timpa. But to be exact this escarpment that flows into the sea is part of a system of different “timpas”, that is “cliffs” – in Sicilian – formed by lava rocks. However, the one of Acireale is certainly among the most majestic and for this reason it […]